FORT COLLINS – Upset over a college newspaper editorial about President Bush that used an obscenity, some conservative students at Colorado State University have started printing their own newspaper.

A group calling itself the CSU College Republicans on Monday distributed the Ram Republic, which they are calling the “Conservative Voice of Colorado State University.”

Editor Bobby Carson said the group had already been thinking about starting a journal when the campus’ main publication, The Rocky Mountain Collegian, published a four-word editorial that directed a four-letter word at Bush. The editor, J. David McSwane, was reprimanded by the campus student publication board.

“That accelerated our efforts,” Carson said.

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Man charged in sexual assaults on 6-year-old relative

A man was charged Monday with sexually assaulting his 6-year-old relative while babysitting, the Denver district attorney’s office said.

Jesus Epps, 42, was charged with four counts of sexual assault on a child, sexual assault by a person in a position of trust and incest and a single count of pattern of abuse, according to a news release.

The charges allege Epps assaulted the girl in August and September. He is in the Denver County Jail in lieu of $25,000 bail.

Boulder County Sheriff’s Commander Phil West said the body was discovered above Buckingham Park, which is about 3 miles up the canyon. West said it took investigators about an hour to hike to the site.

The body was too badly decomposed to determine a gender or a cause of death. West said investigators did spot clues that would lead them to believe the death was a suicide.

Man charged in series of gropings

Denver – A 47-year-old man has been charged with six counts of unlawful sexual contact for a series of groping incidents that happened last month in Denver, prosecutors said Monday.

Peter Geoffroy allegedly fondled, groped and exposed himself to six different women between 1:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. on Sept. 27 at various locations, including the light-rail station at the Auraria Campus, the 16th Street Mall, on board a light-rail train and at a hotel, prosecutors said.

Geoffroy remained in custody Monday in the Denver County Jail on $25,000 bail.

Missing woman’s kin offer reward

Grand Junction – The family of Paige Birgfeld is offering a $15,000 reward for information leading to the recovery of their daughter.

Birgfeld, 34, last was seen June 28, and she was reported missing July 1. Soon after, her car was found ablaze a few miles from her north Grand Junction home.

Mom not guilty in attempted drowning of 3 kids

Denver – A Denver mother accused of trying to drown her three children in February was found not guilty by reason of insanity, prosecutors said Monday.

Brenda Hernandez believed she was Christ, her children were the anti-Christ and that she needed to kill them, police had said.

Hernandez, 25, had been charged with three counts of attempted first-degree murder after Denver police officers intervened in an apparent attempt to drown the children – ages 2, 3 and 7 – in a bathtub Feb. 10.

On Oct. 4, the court found that she was legally insane at the time and committed her to the state hospital for an indefinite period of time, prosecutors said.

Iowan dies in second plunge

Red Cliff – A man survived a 300-foot skid in his car down a steep embankment but died after apparently walking off a 100-foot cliff in the mountains near this town about 10 miles south of Vail.

Justin Parker, 25, of Ames, Iowa, was found shortly after his car was discovered Sept. 30 off of U.S. 24, but his name was not released until Sunday, the Vail Daily reported.

The Eagle County sheriff’s office said footprints led away from the car into some trees, indicating Parker had survived the impact.

On Monday, when the first cross-country eclipse in 99 years swoops across America, believers of all faiths will have their first chance in decades to put their particular religion’s eclipse traditions into practice.

A White House advisory council on infrastructure Thursday became the latest casualty of the pique of business leaders over President Donald Trump’s response to the hate-fueled violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

The first solar eclipse to cross the continental United States in nearly a century comes at an especially inopportune time for many employers. From 10:15 a.m. Pacific until just before 3 p.m. Eastern time — some of the busiest hours of the workweek — the moon’s shadow will hit land in Newport, Ore. and leave the continent near Charleston, S.C.